Best 530 quotes in «tradition quotes» category

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.

If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

If you set up an atmosphere of community and trust, it becomes a tradition. Older team members will establish your credibility with newer ones. Even if they don't like everything about you, they'll say, 'He's trustworthy, committed to us as a team.'

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.

I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.

I love the idea of carrying on some kind of tradition using some of the artifacts from people that touched my life. They're a continuum, too. I still use my father's tools and some of my grandfather's tools. There's a very romantic streak in me. I confess, I'm a romantic, but I like the idea.

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession of the PC(USA), and so on). It was also significantly augmented by the work of important thinkers like Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, Jürgen Moltmann, Emil Brunner, Kathryn Tanner, and so on.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.